How To Delete Your Facebook Email AddressFour years ago, Facebook gave all of its users an @facebook.com email address they never asked for. Two years ago, they tried to force all their users to actually use it. This year, after buying private messaging...

Judge tosses class-action push for Google suitSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge has tossed out an effort to win class-action status for a lawsuit accusing Google of violating the privacy terms of email users. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled late Tuesday that too many...

US Carriers to Put an End to Cramming ChargesTop three US mobile carriers, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, have decided to combine forces and put an end to cramming charges. All spam that costs customers will be eliminated in an effort to clean up the text messaging environment.

Kirk Cameron Movie Ban on Facebook was MistakeKirk Cameron made allegations that Facebook blocked users from accessing the trailer to his movie Unstoppable. Now Facebook responded that the ban was a mistake by its automated system.

Dutch Man Arrested in Spain for Online Attack on SpamhausSpanish police have arrested a Dutch citizen alleged to have made an online attack against an anti-spamming site. The massive assault he made disrupted the site and created a lot of disorder. The man was identified as “S.K.” and was in custody.

Gadgets can ruin your LifeDid you just wake up and are already reading this on your iPad? Yes? You might have a problem. The NY Times has a lengthy story on our gadget live style and how staying connected all the time is having negative effects...

Jun 7 2010, 8:00am CDT

For Sale: 1.5 Million Facebook IDsNothing you do on the Internet is truly private. Most of is either shared by Facebook and their partners or used by Google to help target ads and do market research. Even if you set your Facebook account up to not share...

Apr 23 2010, 11:06am CDT

Study Finds Most Tweets Are Pointless BabbleIn what has to be the least shocking finding in scientific history, market research firm Pear Analytics has found that 40% of Twitter messages are “pointless babble”. The BBC reports on this new social media survey,...

Aug 17 2009, 10:11am CDT

Marketers Threaten Twitter Over SpammersIn a short span of time, Twitter has gone from a brand-new idea to a worldwide phenomenon. From Iranian revolutionaries to mourners of Michael Jackson, it seems like everyone has a Twitter account these days. Websites,...

Jul 3 2009, 11:35am CDT

Disqus Discussions now available on I4U NewsIn the past years we have tried several times to deploy a commenting system on I4U News. The first home grown systems failed because of spam. The other services failed because adoption was low. Now we are giving Disqus...

May 25 2009, 1:30am CDT

BBC buys itself a little BotnetThe BBC tech show Click bought a botnet to show how at risk we are for cyber crimes.
The botnet the BBC crew acquired contained 22,000 hijacked PCs around the world. The Click team will show how effective spamming can...

Mar 13 2009, 6:00am CDT

ISPs Close Spam Firm Reducing Spam by 70%Spam is certainly the scourge of the Internet for most users. According to BBC News, the amount of spam has plummeted since ISPs in the US pulled the plug on one specific host believed to be the hot spot for a massive...

Nov 13 2008, 6:56am CST

Spammers on Storm Botnet Make $3.5 million per yearResearchers conducted a study into spam to find out how profitable it was and how high the response rate to spam messages was. To do so the researchers hijacked a portion of the Storm botnet that had over 1 million...

Nov 11 2008, 6:28am CST

T-Mobile Loses Customer DataThe UK government isn't the only place personal data of citizens is being lost. T-Mobile has reported the loss of data on nearly 17 million German customers with personal details including email and phone numbers.
It...

Oct 6 2008, 8:10am CDT

MySpace Wins Record £165 Million from SpammerAccording to Telegraph MySpace has won a record settlement against so called “Spam King” Sanford Wallace. The record £165 million settlement comes after a legal battle over spam messages Wallace sent to MySpace members....

May 14 2008, 8:48am CDT

Today Marks 30 Years of SpamToday marks 30 years since the first spam message was sent and 15 years since the term spam was first coined. The term Spam is through to have been coined by Joel Furr an administrator on the Usenet discussion system....

Mar 31 2008, 11:40am CDT

Japanese Authorities Arrest SpammerOne of the worst things about the Internet age for many computer users is the huge amount of spam that we get in our inboxes every day. Japanese officials arrested a man in Tokyo for sending 2.2 billion spam emails.The...

Feb 22 2008, 1:21pm CST

Google Profiles the Key to Spam Free Email?Google introduces yet another services building block - Google Profiles.
A Google Profile lets you have a coherent identity and a simple way to manage your contacts across all services.
The new Google Profiles are...

New UK company promises '100% spam free' e-mailClearMyMail has launched in the UK, and the site's creators are calling it the world's first e-mail provider that offers a "100% no spam guarantee". According to a press release, developers spent over a year working on...

Apr 4 2007, 12:00am CDT

AOL On Treasure Hunt In Pursuit of Spammer SettlementHere's one for the offbeat files. It seems that AOL has an interesting option to collect the money that's owed to them by a "renegade spammer" -- they want to dig up his family's property because they believe that...

Spam Goes into this Colorful Spam Cube Over HereFighting Spam is a noble cause. Spam Cube is offering a hardware gadget in the shape of a cube to make fighting spam easy for everyone.
The 4.5" cube connects to your network and automatically filters spam emails. Via...